Students at public two- and four-year institutions of higher education have come to expect annual tuition increases and 2012-13 will apparently be no different. The hikes will be up to 10%, depending on where you are matriculating. However, for the last year and a half, each month we have heard revenues have exceeded projections. When anyone asks how this can be, they are told it is because there are certain things in the state’s budget that, by law, cannot be cut. My question is, how can we create a law that says higher education cannot be cut? Maybe we need more direct democracy in Tennessee. Maybe we need a Tennessee proposition one, that says: “State spending on higher education must only be reduced if state revenues have decreased during the previous fiscal year.”
Read more on the expected (not a done deal yet) here:
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/nov/10/state-panel-weighs-tuition-02/
